Product Description: Cleveland, Ohio-born painter R.B. Kitaj (1932–2007) lived and worked in London, England from 1959 to 1997, where he pioneered a new type of figurative art in the 60s with his artist friends Frank Auerbach, Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud and Leon Kossoff, all of whom would find themselves dubbed the “London School...read more

Product Description: This intimate exhibition catalogue, produced to accompany Marlborough gallery's recent posthumous New York exhibition of R.B. Kitaj's small paintings, most of which measure well less than two feet square, and many of which depict his astonishingly influential circle of friends and heroes--Creeley, Auden, Freud, Arendt, Greenberg--is also a memorial of sorts...read more

Product Description: This monograph is a suberb guide to the work of 'the most inventive of living representational painters'. This groundbreaking book contains a new and wide-ranging interview with the artist, a selection of 60 of Kitaj’s finest paintings, drawings and prints, and previously unpublished documentary images from his personal archive...read more

Product Description: An intimate friendship of more than three decades is chronicled here, along with the aesthetic evolution of two major American artists. R.B. Kitaj's unusual, handsome, troubled, charismatic face has been a rich subject for Lee Friedlander's camera since the two artists became friends in 1970, when both were teaching at the University of California, Los Angeles...read more

Product Description: A pairing of Kitaj's art and the conversations inspired by it.

Product Description: New York: Rizzoli International, 1994. 1st U.S. Edition, Hardbound, about 12 inches tall by 9.5 inches wide, 239 pages. Bibliography. Published in conjunction with a traveling exhibition that ran from June 1994 to May 1995. Surveys thirty-five years of Kitaj's art...read more

An artist declares his credo on art and life

Gathers photographs of musicians, writers, wrestlers, artists, photographers, couples, parents and children, and people and their pets

Works by the American expatriate artist are accompanied by discussions of his themes and technique